Doing Meta-analysis with R

Book excerpt: "This book serves as an accessible introduction into how meta-analyses can be conducted in R. Essential steps for meta-analysis are covered, including pooling of outcome measures, forest plots, heterogeneity diagnostics, subgroup analyses, meta-regression, methods to control for publication bias, risk of bias assessments and plotting tools. Advanced, but highly relevant topics such as network meta-analysis, multi-/three-level meta-analyses, Bayesian meta-analysis approaches, SEM meta-analysis are also covered. A companion R package, dmetar, is introduced in the beginning of the guide. It contains data sets and several helper functions for the meta and metafor package used in the guide"--